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Irvine, CA, US

Laguna Beach, California, United States

♦ Assisting the Dean of Academic Affairs in supporting our faculty and students with work on curriculum, policy, accreditation, self-assessment, and cross disciplinary communication.♦ Title IX Coordinator for LCAD♦ Coordinating with the Faculty Senate to ensure good communication and clarity on campus issues♦ Refine our Shared Governance polices and.

Laguna Beach, California, United States

♦ Teach classes in both the BFA Game Art and MFA Game Design♦ Classes include fundamentals classes, such as Color Theory & Digital Painting and Digital Sculpting, as well as career prep classes such as Senior Portfolio 1 and 2, Professional Studies, and other Production and industry oriented classes for advanced students♦ Assist BFA and MFA department.

Laguna Beach, California, United States

♦ Teaching classes or portions of classes in the Game Art department, including fundamental 3D art concepts, portfolio development, and professional studies.♦ Guide students through their individual difficulties with 3D in general, 3DS Max, and their artistic and production issues with their projects.♦ Worked with department head and administration to.

Irvine, CA

♦ Business Development & Consulting♦ Creative Direction, Art Direction, Narrative Design, Production♦ Outsource vendor selection and management (art and sound)♦ Mentorship of junior artists and production personnel♦ Development of unreleased mobile, casual RPG Rockhopper has morphed over the years, as my experience and vision has shifted from freelance.

Irvine, California, United States

♦ Design and teach three distinct seminars of an online Masters level Professional Studies class across Winter, Spring, and Summer quarters each year.♦ Review Masters student portfolios, résumés, and professional presentations, as well as advising and coaching them on content and best practices.♦ Coordinate industry guest speakers and lead discussions of.

Norco, CA

♦ Business Development (landed projects totalling millions of dollars in value)♦ Product Direction♦ Creative Direction♦ Design and Documentation♦ Mentorship♦ Business Development♦ Partner LiaisonDuring the course of my time with Broken Circle Studios, I have forged connections between the studio and dozens of other studios and publishers, brought in.

Laguna Beach, CA

♦ Recruiting♦ Communication with students and faculty♦ Social media management♦ File organization and archive for the online major♦ Event planning and organization

♦ Art Direction and technical art spec determination ♦ Outsource vendor selection and management♦ Concept art and game design for an unannounced project

Boulder, CO

♦ Developed DragonVale art style, designed and created launch characters, and contributed to all aspects of game development; credited with building interdepartmental consensus among divergent, conflicted teams. ♦ Led internal and offsite artists and animators to add new post-launch content weekly; writing and feature design; game sustained #1 standing in.

♦ Created illustrations, sculptures, character and concept designs, as well as graphic design♦ Created story treatments from original IP as well as adaptation of public domain and other works♦ Visual development for film projects♦ Storyboards♦ Clients include USC's Keck School of Medicine and Sekret Agent Productions

Burbank, California, United States

♦ Created in-game and cinematic characters, an arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and props.♦ Collaborated with core teams to design custom shaders and refine internal tools and processes. ♦ Shipped 4 console titles, all of which achieved Sony’s “Greatest Hits” ranking.Project Portfolio: Resistance 3 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Resistance 2.

Burbank, California, United States

♦ Created environmental assets based on inspirational art. ♦ Designed and created systems for Environmental assets (alien walls, gates, buildings, etc)♦ Collaborated with Designers to translate paper maps into engaging 3D levels.Project portfolio: Resistance: Fall of Man (York assets, Cheddar Gorge structures, final Chimeran node) Ratchet & Clank Future.

Los Angeles, California, United States

♦ Collaborated as part of a high-performance art team in the designing, modeling, and texturizing of licensed characters, environments, props, and effects for video games.♦ Designed original characters for Incredibles games in coordination with and approval from Brad Bird and Mark Andrews at Pixar for concurrent release with The Incredibles movie. ♦ Taught.

Carlsbad, California, United States

♦ Worked under Studio Art Director to create concepts and gameplay ideas for games in development.♦ Worked with multiple team leads; communication between various teams and Studio Art Director.♦ Sculpted maquette of company mascotProduct Portfolio: Oni 2 (Cancelled) Spy Hunter II

Los Angeles, California, United States

♦ Co-designed all courses to impart foundation level skills and understanding in 3D animation students and increase engagement and portfolio relevance for students.♦ Designed and ran Character Design Workshop to strengthen foundation skills in students and provide a forum for individual feedback for students in the program but not in my classes.♦ Classes.

Los Angeles, California, United States

♦ Apprenticed with staff sculptor to create molds and casts of fossils and sculptural elements for exhibits. ♦ Collaborated on a life sized portrait mural of 16 paleontologists and crew to accompany a traveling exhibit for The Tiniest Giants. Painted all heads and hands, as well as blocking background and rendering most of it. Working under tight deadline.

Beverly Hills, California, United States

♦ Managed and supervised all layout and design and production of books, calendars, posters and collectibles locally, in Hong Kong, New York City, and Europe.♦ Managed marketing, wrote copy, selected vendors, and provided customer support.♦ Planned and hosted gallery events, including travel for VIPs.♦ Created the company website.♦ Hired and managed staff.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Art Of Game Design

Activities and Societies: Participated in the USC Gamepipe Advanced Games Project at Viterbi School of Engineering. Partial scholarship. I.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Illustration

Activities and Societies: Interned at the Natural History Museum, LA County in the sculpture department. Graduated magna cum laude with a.

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of Shakespeare Reading and Performance Group; UCLA Animation Workshop; Friends of the English.

Aa, General Education And Military Science (Army Rotc), Hs Junior And Senior Years, Junior College Freshman And Sophomore Years.

Activities and Societies: Studied military science, including history, communication, and principals of leadership. JROTC and ROTC--squad.